distasteful
Unpleasant or offensive, so that you dislike it.
distasteful in a sentence
- Laughing at someone who has fallen over is distasteful.
- The pirates found honest work distasteful and preferred to steal.
Try an 11+ style question
Verbal reasoning papers often ask about a word like this.
Which word is closest in meaning to distasteful?
- Aoffensive
- Bagreeable
- Cappealing
- Ddelightful
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A: offensive. The other three mean the opposite of distasteful.
Which word is most nearly opposite in meaning to distasteful?
- Adelightful
- Bnasty
- Cunpleasant
- Doffensive
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A: delightful. The other three mean nearly the same as distasteful.
Words that mean something similar
offensive, nasty, unpleasant
Words that mean the opposite
delightful, appealing, agreeable
More words about behaviour & manners
- docile: Quiet, gentle and easy to control.
- dutiful: Careful to do everything you are supposed to do.
- eavesdrop: To listen secretly to other people's private conversation.
- entice: To tempt someone by offering them something nice.
- exempt: Allowed to skip something that everyone else must do.
- extravagant: Spending or costing far more than is needed.
- feign: To pretend to feel or be something.
- feud: A long, bitter quarrel between two people or groups.
More words to explore
Sitting the 11+ in Kent, Medway or Buckinghamshire?
Plain-English guides to each test, from the councils’ own pages: Kent Test · Medway Test · Bucks Secondary Transfer Test